Section: News & Summaries

The combined Russian-separatist forces attacked the Ukrainian army positions in eastern Ukraine 63 times in the past 24 hours, according to the press center of the Anti-Terrorist Operation (ATO) Headquarters.33 attacks were recorded in the Donetsk sector. The militants fired banned 122mm artillery systems on the Ukrainian positions in the...

The political crisis that split Ukraine`s government and delayed billions of dollars in aid has ended, eliminating the risk of snap elections, according to the nation`s prime minister, Volodymyr Groysman, Bloomberg reports.”The political crisis is over,” Groysman said, according to Bloomberg. ”We need to work on parliament`s consolidation and its...

The Defense Committee of the UK Parliament in its report titled ”Russia: Implications for UK defense and security” says the allies should step up their game and boost their military prowess to be able to deter Russia.”Russian actions in Ukraine have created a deep instability within Europe of a type not witnessed since the end of the Cold War,”...

U.S. President Barack Obama at the upcoming NATO summit in Warsaw will emphasize the need for the European Union to cooperate more closely with NATO in countering cyberattacks, coordinating military drills and patrolling the central Mediterranean, The New York Times reports citing its sources in the White House.”The departure of Britain from the...

In July 2015 the Ukrainian government started to gradually introduce the brand-new police force in the country`s cities. Now, almost a year since, Ukraine Today sits with Ukraine`s police chief Khatia Dekanoidze to discuss this major reform of the Ukrainian government.”I can`t say that of course that all police officers are fair right now – of...

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Yuriy Lutsenko has dismissed Prosecutor of Rivne region Anatoliy Kovalchuk.This statement Lutsenko made during his visit to Rivne, local journalist Viktoria Mamotyuk reported on Facebook.According to the journalist, the prosecutor general said he intended to reshuffle the whole leadership of the prosecutor`s office...

The investigation team dealing with the Malaysian Airlines flight MH17 crash in Ukraine plans to visit Moscow this week, Russian news agency TASS reported referring to Wim de Bruin, the spokesman for the Dutch chief prosecutor`s office.”Experts are visiting Moscow on July 5-6,” TASS quoted Wim de Bruin as saying.It is reported that investigators...

Two people have been killed in an explosion outside the Prophet`s Mosque in the Saudi Arabian city of Medina, Al Jazeera reported citing sources.Photos on social media show smoke billowing from a fire outside the mosque where Prophet Muhammad is buried, according to Al Jazeera.The cause of the explosion was not immediately known. Some reports...

Ukraine has ranked 63rd out of 133 countries in the social progress index compiled by the Social Progress Imperative with the support of international consulting firm Deloitte, as stated in a new report published by the company.The index was prepared on the basis of 53 different indicators including the level of health care, education, access to...

Ukraine`s representative in the humanitarian subgroup at the Trilateral Contact Group on Donbas settlement and First Deputy Chairperson of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Iryna Gerashchenko stated that Kyiv has reiterated its request to Russia to provide information about children unlawfully taken out of Ukraine`s Donbas.”The Ukrainian side...